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Sonja: The White Swan

2018

Anne Sewitsky

Ine Marie Wilmann, Valene Kane, Eldar Skar, Anders Mordal ...

5.5

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Drama Sonja - The White Swan is the story about Sonja Henie, one of the world's greatest athletes and the inventor of modern figure skating, who decides to go to Hollywood in 1936 to become a movie star. Her first film breaks the box office by selling the most tickets in the world in 1937. She becomes one of richest women in her time, always surrounded by fans, lovers and family, never alone. As she gets older the spotlight is fading, but she ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Amy Nicholson Variety	"A frosty tale of a star who was more machine than human, 'Sonja: The White Swan' is, like Henie herself, brash and dazzling and hard to love."
		Stephen Farber The Hollywood Reporter	"Slick but formulaic (...) This is admittedly a handsome production (...) and the filmmaking is energetic enough to keep us watching. But some of the gaps in continuity are confounding"
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"Wilmann delivers an athletic, confident performance (...) Sewitsky delivers a busy film which never, at any point, looks like it shot in Hollywood, but is enjoyably lavish nonetheless."
		Gregory Ellwood The Playlist	"The film’s skating sequences are often spectacular and truly convey why Henie was a star (...) Unfortunately, 'Sonja' ends with a bit of a thud. There’s a long-gestating romance that is strangely underdeveloped"

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